Bummis Bio-Soft Liners: A Review from Little Miss Kate

Bummis Bio-Soft Liners from Moms and Bums

One of the most frequent questions I get once someone learns that I use cloth diapers on my son is “What about the poop?!?”  I think this is the thing that scares the most people away from cloth diapering, when really it does not need to be a concern at all.  There are some great products out there to help you get rid of the “solids” from your diapers making washing a breeze and keeping the stinkies away from your diaper pail.

Now when I first started cloth diapering A.C., I was very paranoid about the poop, and worried it would stain all of my diapers and be a big mess.  I started using flushable liners, but didn’t find them all that effective against his exclusively breastfed poops.  In talking to a few friends I found that I was the one doing it wrong…  Exclusively breastfed babies produce poop that is completely water soluble, and in most cases has very little odour - no rinsing or liners required!  I stopped using liners until we started to introduce other foods into A.C’s diet at 6 months.  Now we can easily flush away the solids (and the smell) before putting the diaper in the diaper pail. 

There are many different brands of liners out there, and I have tried several.  The ones that we use most often are Bummis Bio-soft Liners.

Bummis Bio-Soft Liner next to a BumGenius

As the name states these liners are super soft, but don’t let this fool you these liners are up to the job.  They are the perfect size to lay flat inside every pocket diaper I have tested them on (including Baby Kicks 3g).  Although they may look thin (like a dryer sheet), they hold up well in all situations including overnight and never disintegrate.   Overall they work great and really do make clean up a breeze.
A note from my personal experience – toilet paper or Kleenex are not good stand ins when you run out of liners.  So make sure you get more once you open your last roll!

These liners worked amazing during our transition to solids and made an icky situation so easy to deal with.  Using the Bummis Bio-soft liners we have never had to spray our diapers or had any problems with solids sticking to the diaper.  Now that A.C. is pretty predictable in the poop department, I just put liners in the “high risk” diapers.  When they are poopy I just flip them into the toilet, and if they are just wet I just drop it into the garbage pail.  We have always used the small size and they have suited our needs perfectly.  At $6.00 for a roll of 100, they are well worth the small investment.  

Bummis Bio-Soft Liners on FuzziBunz and BumGenius

I highly recommend Bummis Bio-soft Liners - we use them on a daily basis and they make cloth diapering so easy!
Katie
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Gabriel's Picks- #1 Premmie Prefolds and Super Brite Covers by Bummis

We are always asked which cloth diapers we use and what we prefer, so we decided it was time to share:) Over the next few weeks we are going to highlight some great cloth diapers that we found worked the best for Gabriel. First you may need a bit of background. Gabriel was born January 24th at 5lbs 3oz and 34 weeks gestation. He is our 3rd child, our second to use cloth diapers (the nurses in the NICU were not open to cloth, so he was 2 weeks old before we started, and had just passed his birth weight).We used a variety of diapers on him, some fitting much better than others. My favorite was Bummis preemie prefolds with a preemie/newborn super brite cover. He has since outgrown the Preemie/newborn cover (at just over 10lbs and nearly 3 months old) so we have moved up to small Bummis Super Brites and xs Thirsties covers. The prefolds are however still fitting great, and seem to get softer with each wash! We will have to update when they become too small for him.
A note on Thirsties xs covers and AIO's- Although the design for Thirsties and Bummis are quite similar, (with Bummis being made right here in Canada) we found that the leg holes with Thirsties were much larger than the Bummis ones- allowing for our preemie with the common preemie "chicken legs" to pee right out of them. Gabriel was about 8lbs before he was able to wear them without leaks.
We definitely would recommend Bummis Newborn Super Brite Covers and Premmie Prefolds for small newborns and preemies.
Why did we chose the Super Brite over the Super Whisper? The leg gussets of course! If you havent had a newborn, then you may not know about the liquid poops that come along with them. You see until a baby begins solid foods poops are generally liquid, and sometimes seedy liquid- gross right! Without those legs gussets you run the risk of that liquid poop leaking right out the sides of the diaper... ask a mom who used disposables how many outfits they ruined with blowouts. Here at Moms and Bums we are all about the leg gussets!
Check out the great video below made by Bummis on how to use their prefolds and stay tuned for the next edition of Gabriels Picks coming soon...

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Cloth Diapers Vs. Disposable Diapers- The Great Debate!

Studies have shown an infant goes through between 8,000 and 10,000 diaper changes before entering potty training.
The savings associated with using cloth diapers is phenomenal compared to using disposables. On average, you will spend anywhere from $2,8000 (for 8,000 diaper changes) and $3,500 (for about 10,000 diaper changes) per child on disposables. You will save on average about $1,500! And the bonus is you can continue to use those same diapers on a second and third child!
When you finish using disposable diapers with your child, all you have left is a huge mountain of trash. Solid human waste in landfills may seep into local ground waters. Even worse, a disposable diaper normally made out of plastics takes around 500 years to decompose, and 18 billion disposable diapers are thrown out in the US each year. That is 100,000 tons of plastic and 800,000 tons of tree pulp. Disposable diapers also contain dioxin- a by-product of bleaching pulp which has been linked to cancer.
However if you have used cloth diapers, you are ready for the next child!
Studies have proven that babies who are disposable diapered have about a 78% incidence of diaper rash, compared to only 7% of cloth diapered babies!
Washing cloth diapers takes the equivalent amount of water as flushing a toilet 5 times a day.
Thus cloth diapers have half the ecological footprint of disposables.